Building Capacity of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

弗吉尼亚州农业和消费者服务部的能力建设 承担检验、检验、调查和其他食品安全活动 项目摘要/建议书摘要 弗吉尼亚州农业和消费者服务部(VDACS)正在寻求资金 来自美国食品和药物管理局的RFA-FD-12-027，以支持该部的 实施专项检查计划。申请的资助额为 30万美元。 食品和药物管理局(FDA)，监管事务办公室(ORA)， 联邦-州关系(DFSR)和食品安全与应用营养中心(CFSAN)， 正在宣布将在Limited项下授予合作协议 竞争。这一机会仅适用于州、地方、地区和部落的食品安全 监管机构，以及与一个或多个非营利性食品安全培训实体合作的 更多的高等教育机构。 VDACS乳品和食品、食品安全和安保计划办公室满足以下所有要求 有资格获得这笔资金。该计划是该州主要的食品监管机构之一 程序。该计划负责对零售食品和人造食品进行检查 州内的机构。VDACS是唯一负责监管的州机构 制造食品店。 RFA提供的资金将用于继续保护公众健康和实施 以预防为重点的检查制度。具体地说，这笔资金将用于聘请一名 制造食品专家并实施试点计划，为专门的 检查计划。专门的检查计划将提高检查的速度， 调查和其他与食品安全有关的活动，特别是在高风险公司；减少 再次违反食品安全规定的比率；提高合规率；以及增加分享 FDA和其他机构之间关于人造食品机构的数据。

Building Capacity of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to Undertake Examinations, Inspections, Investigations, and Other Food Safety Activities Project Summary/Proposal Abstract The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is seeking funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under RFA-FD-12-027 to support the department's implementation of a specialized inspection program. The amount of funding requested is $300,000. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Division of Federal-State Relations (DFSR) and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), is announcing the availability of cooperative agreements to be awarded under Limited Competition. This opportunity is only available to State, local, territorial, and tribal food safety regulatory agencies, as well as nonprofit food safety training entities that collaborate with one or more institutions of higher education. The VDACS Office of Dairy & Foods, Food Safety & Security Program meets all requirements to be eligible for this funding. The program serves as one of the state's primary food regulatory programs. The program is responsible for inspection of both retail and manufactured food establishments in the state. VDACS is the only state agency responsible for regulating manufactured food establishments. Funding provided by the RFA will be utilized to continue to protect public health and implement a prevention focused inspection system. Specifically the funding will be used to hire a Manufactured Foods Specialist and implement a pilot program to pave the way for a specialized inspection program. A specialized inspection program will increase the rate of inspections, investigations, and other food safety related activities, especially in high risk firms; decrease the rate of repeat food safety violations; increase compliance rates; and an increase in the sharing of data between FDA and other agencies for manufactured food establishments.